The dispensary: . a poem. In six cantos. Quod lict, libet.
Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719)
Category
Books
Date
1699
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 3117920
Summary
Bibliographic description
[22], 94p. . 8vo.. Book grub has gone all the way through book. Title differs from ESTC: "canto's" instead of "cantos" and "licet" instead of "lict". Page 55 misnumbered 45 and 58-59 misnumbered 48-49. Annotations through text, providing names for those referred to only by initials. Provenance: Inscription on flyleaf: "My father gave me this book May ye 31th 1699 Eliza: Rooper" [i.e. from Edward Roper of Wellhall to Elizabeth Roper (d.1722), later m. Edward Henshaw]. Binding: Eighteenth century sheep; double blind fillets to form border; sewn on four cords.
Makers and roles
Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719) Royal College of Physicians of London